Audiences are more mistrustful of narrative authority than they used to be because unreliable narrators are more common, IMO. It's just modernism permeating everything—yes, modernism got going about a century ago but it didn't soak into everything right away.

This begs the question of why she married him. Could she not find someone with her ambition or amorality that was more capable? Does she prefer being firmly in control?

I LOVED Mrs. CTO this episode. I had no idea she had such snappy dialogue in her. I'm sorry to lose her so soon after finding it out. (I mean the one he killed, not his wife, since I recognize "Mrs. CTO" could be unclear.)

He'd have to have taste to be able to pretend to have taste, though, you know? He has to know who these bands are and have some concept of personal meaning regarding them in order to choose them for this purpose.

Oh, he completely did. I'm amazed he didn't full-on pull out his phone and call his wife for instructions.

I thought of that too, but it's not incontrovertible. Romero, if Mr. Robot is really Elliot, would be by far the oldest member. So you can read it as "say hi to the kids" (i.e. those younger than you and me, if Mr. Robot is real) or "say hi to the [other] kids" (you kid, leave me the fuck alone).

I think it's awesome they've got a hijabi character.

Person of Interest? (That was a cheap shot.) Depending on the episode, Hannibal. I'm struggling to think of other shows that even have titular characters, honestly.

The shrimp!

I could NOT understand why she didn't at least scratch his face or go for the eyes.

ha ha, none of us have ever thought about this seriously of course, thanks so much for your input

Can you IMAGINE what Hannibal would do with Tyrell. My god.

For once I didn't even see it coming he was going to kill her, so no.

The camera angles were interesting. They really played up the idea of him as distant aggressor and her as victim. I think they definitely wanted us to feel huge distance in the scene—if you look at the angles the two of them are filmed at, it suggests him standing far over her, even though in reality her eyeline is…

But he also never gives her a chance to, because he doesn't listen to her. Elliot's frequent tune-outs always betray a basic confidence that he's not missing anything—it's one thing to drift from a conversation and then think "oh shit, what did I miss, can they tell" and another to confidently stop listening in order…

I read the confrontation between Gideon and Angela differently. I mean, I think Angela took it in the spirit you described, but I saw it as a kind of implicit critique of the sheer largeness of a company like Evilcorp. It's essentially saying they're too big to fail—that families like Angela's and Elliot's should have…

I sometimes wonder if Mr. Robot would look the way it does if Hannibal didn't exist. (Same for Daredevil.)

I agree it seemed off a little, the flashback. One explanation is unreliable narration. Another is that they started out like that and then settled into their drug dealing relationship and while she always was open to more closeness with him, he backed off and shrank away once she wasn't constantly bowling him over as…

I dunno, I feel like that's how a lot of us act when sexually harassed. There's an element of shutting down and freezing because you don't know what to do.

Huh. I found the strangling very unsettling, more so than the verbal violence, but not for the reason you'd expect, I bet. I'm a woman (you may be too, I'm just speaking for myself!); while I've never had a diatribe quite like that one unleashed at me, I've had similar experiences. So when it was happening I was…